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►January 7, 2004 -
Judge OKs Military Anthrax Vaccinations
- Santa Maria Times - "A federal judge Wednesday allowed the military
to resume anthrax inoculations, although he questioned the timing of a
government announcement declaring the vaccine safe."

►January 7, 2004 -
Judge OKs military anthrax vaccinations - A federal judge cleared
the way Wednesday for the Pentagon to resume vaccinating military
personnel against anthrax after lifting his injunction against the
mandatory inoculation program. - CNN - U.S. District Judge Emmet
Sullivan granted a motion from Defense Department attorneys to limit
the effect of his vaccine ban to the six plaintiffs who are suing the
government...'In the absence of a proven correlate of immunity between
humans and animals, specific to anthrax infection, the FDA's Final
Rule's reliance on animal data is illegal, and reflects an arbitrary
and capricious decision. Therefore, the government's victory today may
only be fleeting,' said attorney Mark Zaid."

Comment: Note how this journalist did
not buy into everything the CHR officer said.

►January 7, 2004 -
Vaccines:
New Campaigns Against Scepticism, Says Sirchia - "'We must launch
new vaccine campaigns, despite the recent scepticisms' said today
health minister Girolamo Sirchia, in Genoa to attend the 'Children and
the Mediterranean conference. 'The fact that a measles epidemic has
killed three people in Campania and that flu kills thousands of people
each year is a crime, just as ignoring that a vaccine exists is. There
is an anti-scientific behaviour which establishes that the vaccine
causes the disease. We have gone back to step 1, when Jenner and
Pasteur were considered plague-spreaders'. According to the minister,
the fear of vaccines is due to a lack of information: 'the more
scientific development advances, the more anti-scientific movements
come about. Today's vaccines are completely safe - concluded Sirchia -
even the one against smallpox. There are no risks whatsoever'.

Comment: If it's
not obvious by now that politics and medicine shouldn't mix, I don't
know when it will be. "NO RISKS WHATSOEVER"? And why are
these politicians (like Blair earlier today) suddenly speaking out, and
so confidently and vociferously? What's up or about to be?

►January
7, 2004 - A Plague For The Ages Book Recounts Horror Of 1918 Pandemic
That Killed At Least 20 Million Worldwide -
book review - Hartford Courant via
www.ctnow.com - "This winter's nasty outbreak of influenza carries
only the faintest echo of one of the deadliest plagues in the history
of humanity - the 1918 influenza pandemic..Contemporary news photos of
long lines of people waiting for vanishing flu vaccine shots shows the
public has not lost all fear of influenza, which kills about 36,000
people annually. Reports of an apparently higher than normal number of
deaths among young children are heart-rending and nerve-wracking for
all parents...Yet it is nearly impossible today to fully comprehend the
scope of the 1918 catastrophe. What would be the reaction today to the
deaths of 1.75 million Americans - the equivalent of the 675,000 U.S.
lives claimed by 1918 pandemic - or a global death toll that has been
estimated to be between 20 million to 100 million lives?"

Comment:
But what actually caused the pandemic? Did it have anything to do
with the privations caused by and experienced in WWI? Were there
other relevant and important factors that no longer apply? Rather
than rush willy-nilly to take the latest drug or vaccine, these and
many other questions are in great need of study and answers. But who,
other than the drug companies and the government, have an incentive to
pay for such studies? And can we trust government sponsored
studies now that it is in the business of pushing vaccines?

Comment: What is
it going to take for the general public to get the fact that the immune
system is being tinkered with via vaccines in spite of the fact that it
is understood, and not because of it? And when will the public
realize that this fact is not a trivial one and carries with it great
risk?

►January
7, 2004 - Studies
have shown meditation may boost the immune system - The Baltimore
Sun via Seattle PI - "A funny thing happened to meditation on the way
to the 21st century. It got demystified, and in the process became
acceptable to mainstream America...You won't hear people talking about
Nirvana much with today's Westernized meditation, and there's hardly a
crystal in sight. Instead scientists are studying Buddhist monks with
electroencephalographs and magnetic resonance imaging."

►January
7, 2004 - UNICEF to Buy LG's Vaccines -
Korea Times - "UNICEF
will buy Hepatitis vaccines from LG Life Science for $22 million for
the next three years...In addition, about 50 billion won worth of the
vaccines will be provided the to Pan American Health Organization this
year."

►January
7, 2004 - Flu
vaccine safe for kids, says doc - Edmunton Sun - "A top city doctor
has moved to reassure local parents after a Calgary tot died within a
month of getting a flu shot...'The vaccine is a very safe vaccine,'
said Dr. Marcia Johnson, deputy medical officer of health for Capital
Health. "'There have been no deaths of children in Capital Health
related to influenza that we are aware of.'...The vaccine poses no risk
to kids under the age of two years old, she said."

Comment:
Whew. That's quite a mouthful. First, how clever they must
be to be able to already know that there is no danger. And how
gullible they must think the public is - no studies, not even fake
ones, are deemed necessary before issuing such sweeping, reassuring
statements. And while I'm not sure what is meant by "Capital
Health", if Calgary is covered by it, it does seem that they have
dismissed the possibility that the death of an infant one month after
receiving a flu vaccine could be related to the vaccine. And "no
risk"? (Even the flu manufacturers don't go that far.) Hmmm,
would the "top city doctor" be willing to sign a guarantee?

Comment:
First, there is no evidence from this article how the comparison was
made and upon what the conclusion was based. However, given that
neither vaccine is supposed to be the right strain, one can't help but
wonder if perhaps the headline should say it proves to be as
"ineffective" as the "needle" vaccine.

►January
7, 2004 - Hope
for leukaemia vaccine - Successful tests in mice could herald a
vaccine treatment for people with a form of leukaemia. - BBC

Comment: If this
vaccine is actually safe and effective, and is only given to those who
have leukaemia and choose to take it, just as with the "anti-nicotine"
vaccine below, it may have a meaningful role to play.

Comment: What will be expected from the
state in exchange for having received this funding?

►January
6, 2004 - Anthrax
Vaccine Litigants To File Class-action Complaint Against DOD (requires
subscription) - www.insidedefense.com
- "Plaintiffs challenging the Pentagon’s 5-year-old mass inoculation
program against anthrax will amend their complaint within the next 24
hours to include a class-action certification, according to one of the
lead attorneys...The move constitutes the latest salvo in a legal
tit-for-tat with the Bush administration following a federal judge’s
Dec. 22 injunction against mandatory anthrax inoculations, which the
Defense Department gives military personnel serving abroad in regions
where they may face a biological threat."

Comment: This is a good example why medicine and
politics don't (or shouldn't) mix. What makes Blair an expert on
this subject and competent to meaningfully reassure the public about
their MMR/autism fears?

Comment: As long as this vaccine is restricted
to willing users (and actually is safe and effective), it might be an
example of a reasonable product because it is targeted at people who
already have (and recognize they have) a problem. Compare that to
the childhood vaccines, which are forced on healthy children who may or
may not (most likely will not) have a problem with the disease the
vaccine is alleged to (safely) prevent.

Comment: Rhogam,
given to counteract the effects of Rh Factor in pregnancy, has been a
traditional source of mercury
exposure for both mother and baby.

►January 6, 2004 - Commentary:
Senseless ‘opt-out’ anthrax ruling must be reversed - The Union
Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - "The decision of Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan of the D.C. District Court, which will be binding until the
full court can hear the trial or the Supreme Court overturns it, was
based on 1998 federal legislation that says service members cannot be
forced to take experimental drugs...Granted, it was a piece of bad
legislation based not on scientific evidence but rather on kowtowing to
“Gulf War Syndrome” activists."

►January 6, 2004 - The
44-hour day - A new prescription drug that can stave off sleep for
hours - with no side-effects - could transform the way we live. The
armed forces already use it; others, from new mothers to shift-workers,
might benefit too. So what effect did it have on Julia Llewellyn Smith
over the party season? - The Telegraph, UK

►January 6, 2004 - Don't Have A Cow
- Los Angeles Times via The Tampa Tribune - "The `mad cow'' disease
diagnosed in a U.S. cow has set off a new round of predictable but
groundless panic...Foreign governments promptly banned imports of U.S.
beef. Investors dumped the stocks of beef-related companies. And, of
course, what health scare would be complete without hyperventilating
calls for even more government oversight of an already highly regulated
industry?...There's no question that bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
or BSE - commonly called mad cow disease - is a neurological disease in
cattle. But the notion that people can contract a human form of mad cow
by eating beef from infected cattle is more bun than burger."

►January 6, 2004 - Judge
Says Maker of OxyContin Misled Officials to Win Patents (requires
registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "Purdue Pharma,
the maker of the highly profitable painkiller OxyContin, deliberately
misled federal officials to win patents protecting its drug, a federal
judge ruled yesterday. The ruling helps clear the way for a cheaper
generic version and could lead to more lawsuits."

►December 22, 2003 -
SIDS -
serotonin insufficiency during sleep? (requires registration) -
BioMedNet - "Kinney has found that the number of serotonin receptors is
lower than normal in the brains of SIDS victims, leading her to
conclude that the development of an abnormal serotonergic system may
put an infant at increased risk of developing the disorder...The
findings led George Richerson of Yale University to ask, 'Does SIDS
really stand for Serotonin Insufficiency During Sleep?'"

►December 30, 2003 -
Could
injecting disinfectant treat bacterial infection? (requires
registration) - BioMedNet - "A common antimicrobial agent used in
toothpaste, skin creams, and mouthwash could be injected into the body
to treat bacterial infection, says a microbiologist...What's more,
there is no evidence that microbes can evolve resistance to this
chemical, says Avadhesha Surolia, professor of biophysics at the Indian
Institute of Science in Bangalore."

►January 6, 2004 -
Acambis expands portfolio beyond smallpox - Business Weekly -
"Cambridge based
Acambis
continues to build a global vaccines powerhouse around the
world-class science that won it two contracts to supply the US
government with smallpox vaccines."

►January 2004 -
Immunity
to Fungal Infections - journal article (Nature Reviews Immunology)
via Nature - "The topic of immunity to fungal infections is of interest
to a wide range of disciplines, from microbiology to immunology. It is
of particular interest in terms of therapy of HIV-infected individuals,
and patients with cancer or individuals who have received transplants.
Understanding the nature and function of the immune response to fungi
is an exciting challenge that might set the stage for new approaches to
the treatment of fungal diseases, from immunotherapy to vaccines."

►January 6, 2004 -
Some await anthrax shot antidote - The Daily News - "James Muhammad
says that those who check his record will see he was a good Marine. An
honor graduate from several military courses, he also received at least
one meritorious promotion. In only two years and 11 months, he was
promoted to sergeant on Nov. 1, 2002 - a rapid rise through the chain
of command...Muhammad refused to take the vaccine. Less than six months
later, on April 9, 2003, he was sentenced to 60 days in the brig,
demoted to the rank of private and received a bad conduct discharge. He
was jailed, strip-searched and housed with violent criminals."

►January 6, 2004 -
Meningitis experts pin hopes on new vaccine - Plans for
immunisation of children against B strain - Belfast Telegraph -
"Meningitis experts in Northern Ireland said today they were "crossing
their fingers" that a new vaccine would be the breakthrough needed to
protect against the most dangerous form of the illness...The Meningitis
Research Foundation was commenting on latest research carried out by
scientists at the University of Surrey which could allow doctors to
immunise children against meningitis B for the first time."

►January 6, 2004 -
W.H.O. Urges China to Use Caution While Killing Civet Cats
(requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The
World Health Organization urged caution on Monday as provincial leaders
in southern China rushed to kill thousands of civet cats as a
preventive measure against SARS. Organization officials warned that
such a large-scale slaughter, if done improperly, could pose serious
hazards, including the possibility of more infections."

►January 6, 2004 -
Trials
End Parents' Hopes for Autism Drug (requires registration or
subscription) - The New York Times - "For several years, an
experimental drug, secretin, has offered an unlikely ray of hope for
some desperate parents of children with autism...Discovered
accidentally by the mother of an autistic boy and licensed to a small
biotechnology company led by the father of two autistic girls, secretin
has advanced through clinical trials even as study after study showed
it had little or no effect...Now, the largest and most definitive
clinical trial of secretin has been completed, and it, too, showed that
the drug was no better than a placebo in improving the social
interaction of young children with autism."

►January 3, 2004 -
Vaccinate your child - National Post via www.canada.com - "As a general rule,
parents know better than any one else how best to look after their
children. That said, it seems more and more parents are making the
wrong choice when it comes to vaccinating their offspring against
potentially deadly diseases...Concerned than ever about the safety of
vaccines, with many citing unfounded worries that the preventive shots
are 'unnatural' and will cause everything from brain damage to multiple
sclerosis."

Comment:
Perhaps these fears are unfounded, but it is more likely they are
not. For instance, a recent study, Risk
factors of multiple sclerosis: a case-control study, found a highly significant relationship between
measles vaccination and MS. And there has always been
considerable evidence of brain damage, among the most noteworthy being
the report co-authored by the "father
of pediatric neurology",
Dr. John
Menkes, entitled Workshop
on neurologic complications of pertussis and pertussis vaccination. Among the findings, it was reported that
"Although the majority of seizures following pertussis vaccination are
associated with fever, it was the consensus of the neurologists
attending the workshop, that these do not represent febrile
convulsions, but are non-benign convulsions (my emphasis)." The
Institute of Medicine, in its safety review of vaccines,
found,
among other things, "that the evidence is consistent with a causal relation
between DPT vaccine and acute encephalopathy and shock and 'unusual
shock-like state'..." While it is unknown exactly how many actual
vaccine-associated adverse reactions would be identified were they
assiduously followed, cavalierly dismissing the
over
100,000 of them, as if they must all be meaningless, is simply
absurd. Some idea of their full extent and import can be gleaned
from examination of VAERS reports, as long as
estimates of under-reporting, ranging from 90-99%, are factored
in. For instance, there were 269 reports of
vaccine-associated encephalopathy, probably representing between 2,690
and 26,900 cases. There were another 371 reports
(overlap unknown) of encephalitis, representing a possible additional
3,710 to 37,100 cases. If one takes into consideration the time
between administration of vaccine and reports of infant death, and the
extremely high percentage that appear to be occurring even
within
one day of vaccination, it should be clear that neither jubilation
nor relief about the benign nature of vaccination is warranted.
If reports of vaccine reactions are taken seriously, as they should be,
it becomes apparent that the only thing that is truly unfounded is the
notion that fears about vaccines are "unfounded".

Comment: Call me crazy, but maybe even premature infants who
"cannot" breastfeed could be fed breast milk. And perhaps the
notion that infants need to "maximise weight gain in the first
weeks of life" should be reexamined if the method for accomplishing
that is to feed formula rather than breastmilk.

►January 5, 2004 -
Beth
Clay Response to the WSJ ArticleThe
Politics of Autism
- "As the former Congressional Staffer who, for five years, led
Chairman Burton’s investigations into the autism epidemic and vaccine
safety concerns, I applaud the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the
rise in autism rates. There are, however, numerous factual errors
in the December 29 Commentary, 'The Politics of Autism.'"

►January 2, 2004 -
Hepatitis
B immunisation induces higher antibody and memory Th2 responses in
new-borns than in adults - journal article (Vaccine) - "The high
antibody response to neonatal hepatitis B vaccination contrasts with
low responses to many other vaccines. Indeed, young infants produce
lower concentrations of antibodies in response to diphtheria,
pertussis, tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type B and measles vaccines
than adults [1].
The mechanism underlying the strong antibody response to hepatitis B
vaccine is not clear but could be related to the particulate structure
of the HBs Ag [1
and 15]...We
conclude that hepatitis B vaccine induces higher primary and memory
antibody responses in new-borns than in adults. These strong antibody
responses are associated with low primary IFN- responses and increased post-primary
Th2 responses. The upregulation of Th2 cytokine production by BCG
suggests that neonatal responses could be relatively resistant to
Th1-promoting adjuvants."

►January 5, 2004 -
No bovine vaccines coming from U.S. -
http://calgary.cbc.ca - "The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has
temporarily suspended the importation from the United States of any
vaccines made from ruminant protein. It wants to make sure that there
is no risk of them carrying bovine spongiform encephalopathy."

►January 5, 2004 - Immune boost
'widens cancer fight' - Scientists may have found a way to harness
the immune system and strike at hidden tumours throughout the body. -
BBC - "Animal tests suggest that a treatment given to just one tumour
produces an immune response that targets secondary growths in other
places...Researchers from Chicago University now hope the same effect
can be reproduced in humans with cancer...If so, it could offer a way
to tackle cases where more advanced cancers have a foothold in many
parts of the body."

►January 3, 2004 -
Toxins
lead to healthier lives? -
'Revolutionary' research suggests billions can be saved in cleanup
costs - Insight Magazine via
www.worldnetdaily.com - "Hormesis, the scientific theory that
humans actually need small amounts of poison in their diets, could be
the most important environmental event of the 21st century if proved
valid. Billions of dollars could be saved in environmental cleanup
costs, say researchers, while at the same time improving the health of
all organisms, including humans...But at first examination, hormesis
appears kooky. The knee-jerk reaction is to reject this phenomenon as
pseudoscience or propaganda by polluters, and a few uninformed
observers have done just that."

►January 5, 2004 -
Anthrax ruling a victory for local mom - Missoula woman says
judge's decision isn't end of fight over vaccine - Missoulian Online - "'I
went looking on the Internet for something that was not hysterical, not
emotional; I wanted facts,' says Hubbell, who runs a public relations
firm out of her Missoula home. 'I found that when I came across the
site sponsored by Maj. Sonnie Bates.'...Bates, Hubbell says, is the
highest-ranking officer to refuse the anthrax vaccine, costing him his
military career...'His letter to his commanding officer explaining why
he would not take it had a military precision to it,' she says. "'t was
just fact, fact, fact, fact. It convinced me there was a real problem
here, and I had to get involved. The people this is affecting can have
their pay docked, be demoted, be court-martialed. They can't speak up,
so I figured it's up to the parents to do it.'

►January 5, 2004 -
Smallpox vaccine elusive - Public demand for vaccination has
subsided. Concerns about side effects may outweigh fear of
disease. - The Morning Call Online - "Even a potentially safer
experimental vaccine against the deadly disease being tested by the
National Institutes of Health has insufficient takers. After a year,
program officials have enrolled 130 of the 185 participants needed."

Comment: Given that the smallpox vaccine is known to have (an
unknown number of) serious reactions and the risk of getting smallpox
is probably small, it would seem that the public does know best.

Comment: Unless they expect serious adverse reactions to occur in
more than 1/185 people, a study of this size certainly cannot be
expected to identify serious adverse reactions.

►January 5, 2004 -
Needless appendix surgery cited - The Boston Globe - "Surgeons
needlessly remove the appendixes of thousands of children who don't
have appendicitis -- a problem most acute at hospitals that perform the
operation infrequently -- according to a new study that raises
difficult questions about improving pediatric care."

►December 31, 2003 - Police
believe body is that of missing Arlington man - The Daily Herald -
"Schoellhorn was not equipped with a Project Lifesaver bracelet. The
bracelets contain 1-ounce transmitters that allow search and rescue
personnel to dial in a specific frequency to track the person...The
bracelets are designed to help people who suffer from Alzheimer's,
autism or other medical conditions that can cause them to wander."

►January 1, 2004 - 'Overwhelmed
and overloaded' - Moms of Children with Special Needs looks to
provide support - Log Cabin Democrat - "Mothers of special needs
children know there are lots of problems that go along with the
joys...Hope Guidry of Conway, mother of an autistic child, described it
as 'living a nightmare, and you don't know what to do'."

►January 2, 2004 - Evanston
bus accident - There were some scary moments in the north suburbs
Friday afternoon when a mini bus filled with a dozen teenagers and
adults with special needs crashed into a parked truck. It happened on
Main Street near Fowler in Evanston. -
http://abclocal.go.com

►January 2, 2004 - Districts
put to the test - The Sacramento Bee via The Modesto Bee - "Experts
say these intensive treatments are the only technique proven effective
in giving autistic children the skills they need to live independent
lives...Yet, with the state's autistic population doubling in four
years, the success of these lessons and their high costs -- as much as
$60,000 a year per child -- threaten to overwhelm school districts
already struggling to balance budgets."

►December 30, 2003 - Invasion
of the Virtually Indestructible Protein - Newsday - "Mad cow
disease belongs to a small group of lethal disorders, caused by an
infectious agent that is impervious to heat, ultraviolet light and an
array of caustic chemical compounds...These agents, bizarre proteins
known as prions, have been the subject of two major government
investigations within the past year. Just last month, the Institute of
Medicine, a division of the National Academies, released a report and
recommended increased government funding to study these disorders."

►December 30, 2003 - Government
enacts measures to end "health tourism" - AFP via Yahoo! - "The
government announced new measures to fight a practice dubbed "health
tourism" in which foreign visitors avail themselves of Britain's free
public hospitals costing the country hundreds of millions of pounds
each year."

►January 4, 2004 - 'Epidemic'
of autism: Parents turn to alternative cures as number of cases
skyrockets - Oakland Tribune - "THE day care center workers first
noticed the problem with Kaleb...At the Jewish Community Center in Palo
Alto, a child's piercing scream filled the air. The other children
rushed over, concerned and alarmed. Their classmate sobbed indignantly:
Someone had stepped on her hand...Only Kaleb, nearly 3, was unfazed. He
continued to sit by himself, as usual, preoccupied with carefully
lining up toy cars in a pin-straight row."

►January 5, 2004 - Appeal to
SAARC Summit in Islamabad on Autism - "Autism is on the rise in
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives
- the countries within the SAARC region...There are 30,000 autistic
people in Sri Lanka, according to international experts there will be a
massive rise in 5 years time - in Sri Lanka and all over the SAARC
region...Scientists are still divided as to the causes of autism -
parents are still asking the question - is ithe MMR, is it genetic, is
it caused by foetal distress at birth. Asian parents need answers to
these pressing questions on Autism."

►December 28, 2003 -
Editorial:
Deals with scientists taint NIH research - San Antonio Express-
News - "National Institutes of Health scientists are damaging the
credibility of their work by receiving consulting fees, stock options
or other types of pay from drug companies whose products they research
for the federal government...The Los Angeles Times this month exposed
the disturbing trend among senior NIH scientists of moonlighting for
biomedical companies and legally being able to keep that information
from the public...The situation isn't fair to American taxpayers, and
the potential conflicts of interest are phenomenal."

►January 5, 2004 - National
Journal Article Reveals Admission From CDC, Latest Vaccine Study Data
Contained Many Children Too Young To Be Diagnosed As Autistic -
Official Accepts Critics' Charge, Parents Say Data Was Manipulated To
Cover Up Hidden Dangers Of Mercury Additive, Congressman Weldon Asks
Data Be Shared With Outside Researchers -
Safe Minds Press Release via
PRNewswire - "An article released by National Journal reveals
disturbing new information about a Vaccine Safety DataLink (VSD) study
by the Centers for Disease Control published in November's Pediatrics.
A journalist for the National Journal, Neil Munro, reports that Frank
DeStefano, a CDC official and co-author of the latest VSD study,
admitted the study contained many children too young to be diagnosed as
autistic. The article quotes DeStefano as stating, 'This is true.'"

►January 4, 2004 - A
Suicide Side Effect? - What parents aren't being told about their
kids' antidepressants - www.sfgate.com
- "'If there was a warning that said 'Caution: this drug may cause
suicide in some people,' then doctors are going to know about it,'
Farber says...Instead of warning people, Farber charges,
Glaxo-SmithKline tried to hide the true numbers. 'They cooked the
books,' says Farber during a recent interview. 'They cheated on the
results. And the FDA is part of this.'"

►January 5, 2004 - Ward
off those winter ailments - The Telegraph, UK - "Who gets them
(colds)? Almost everybody. Adults suffer an average of two to five a
year and children seven to 10 a year. Because we produce antibodies
each time we have a cold, we get fewer as we grow older."

Comment: Vaccines are given under the assumption that they trick
the body into producing antibodies and react otherwise similarly to
what occurs naturally. But is that actually the case? And
what are the ramifications if it is not?

►January 5, 2004 - Hope
For New Meningitis Vaccine - University of Surrey via
www.innovations-report.com
- "The Surrey researchers used genetic engineering technology to make a
mutant group of the meningococcus that was incapable of causing disease
in mice. The mutant was made in a C group of the meningococcus.
However, mice that were inoculated with the mutant group developed
antibodies that killed not only C groups but also B and A groups. It
appears that, by inoculating with the disabled group, the mice have
effectively been immunised against all groups."

Comment: But what about the
problem of changing serotypes, with them sometimes becomingmore
virulent, due to outside
pressure likevaccinesand antibiotics?

►January 5, 2004 - Full
story needs airing on military anthrax vaccine (Editorial) -
www.pantagraph.com - "Having
800,000 service people vaccinated without positive proof that the
vaccines caused any deaths would seem to be sufficient evidence to
continue the program for service people heading into areas where the
threat of anthrax might be high...However, the problems the
manufacturer had with the FDA suggests a full court hearing should be
conducted to bring out all of the facts surrounding the manufacturing
process before any members of the armed forces are required to take
more shots. This hearing should be scheduled quickly."

►January 4, 2004 - More
families have children with learning disorders - Alameda Times-Star
Online - "One in every three American families has had to cope with a
child with a learning disability or a mental illness and most people
believe such problems are increasing, according to a poll by Scripps
Howard News Service and Ohio University."

Comment: What's it going to
take for the "experts" to take seriously that vaccines may well be
involved in this devastating public health problem?

►January 5, 2004 - Mad
Cow Forces Beef Industry to Change Course (requires registration or
subscription) - The New York Times - "The financial motive that drove
the industry to defend practices like selling downers has been turned
on its head by the discovery of mad cow disease. Now, in an attempt to
rescue the market for American beef, the industry is being forced to
accept regulation it has long fought."

►January 2, 2004 - U.S.
Army Buys $30 Million in Anthrax Shots - Reuters - "The Defense
Department announced on Friday a $29.7 million order for anthrax
vaccine based on the assumption that a federal judge's ban on mandatory
inoculations will be reversed...Privately held BioPort Corp. of
Lansing, Michigan, was awarded the Army order on Wednesday as part of a
$245.6 million contract, the Pentagon said."

Comment: If this isn't arrogance of power and doesn't show
contempt for the taxpayer, I don't know what does.

►January 4, 2004 - We
all have a stake in promoting vaccination -
www.timesunion.com - "This
year, several thousand people in New York state -- and 60,000 across
the nation -- will die from diseases that we can prevent through
vaccination. Polio, measles, rubella and diphtheria, once responsible
for killing or harming thousands of children and adults, can be
controlled through immunization...We have vaccines for more than 20
diseases. Sadly, despite these advances, thousands die every year from
preventable diseases."

Comment: Would that those who are concerned about death from
diseases were equally concerned about death from vaccines.

►January 4, 2004 - The
new you - How to feel well, look better and improve your life this
year - www.sunspot.net - "Get
eight hours of sleep a night. The National Sleep Foundation estimates a
10 to 35 percent drop in antibodies and immune cells when you're
sleep-deprived...Stop using anti-bacterial hand and dish soaps; they
may be strengthening germs and weakening our immune systems."

►January 4, 2004 - Beating
cancer nature's way - In a week that's seen the deaths of Bob
Monkhouse, Alan Bates and Dinsdale Landen, all victims of cancer, here
is a story of one man's successful - if unorthodox - struggle against
the disease - The Guardian, UK

►January 2, 2004 - Virus
Seen in Muscle from Chronic Fatigue Patients - Journal of Medical
Virology via Reuters Health - "A persistent enterovirus infection in
muscles may be to blame for some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome
(sometimes called fibromyalgia) and others with chronic inflammatory
muscle disease, a French team reports...They detected genetic material
(specifically RNA) from enteroviruses in 20 percent of muscle biopsies
from patients with chronic inflammatory muscle diseases and 13 percent
of patients with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome, but not from
healthy volunteers...The findings favor a persistent infection
involving defective viral replication as a cause of these conditions."

►July 2001 - Technical
Report: Mercury in the Environment: Implications for Pediatricians
- AAP Policy Statement - "Ethylmercury, in the form of thimerosal, was
formerly used as a topical antiseptic and has also been used as an
effective preservative for killed vaccines and other biological agents
for medical therapy. Thimerosal contains 49.6% mercury by weight and is
metabolized to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate. Before fall 1999, there
was 25 µg of mercury in each 0.5-mL dose of most diphtheria and
tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccines as well as some
Haemophilus influenzae type b, influenza, meningococcal, pneumococcal,
and rabies vaccines. In addition, there was 12.5 µg of mercury in
each dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The reference doses* established
by federal agencies were between 0.1 and 0.4 µg/kg/d.6,19
Assuming that the toxicity of ethylmercury is similar to that of
methylmercury, the exposure from a single vaccination could potentially
exceed federal guidelines for that day and, with routine immunization,
a cumulative dose of up to 75 µg of mercury by 3 months of age
and 187.5 µg by 6 months of age could have been received."

►January 4, 2004 -
Food culprits that dwarf mad-cow toll - Knight Ridder via The
Seattle Times - "In the days since mad-cow disease was announced in the
United States, more than 1 million Americans were sickened by food they
ate. About 6,000 became so ill they were hospitalized and nearly 100
died, according to federal health estimates...But mad-cow disease
wasn't the culprit. Indeed, not a single American is known to have
contracted the human form of the disease from eating food in this
country...Instead, salmonella, E. coli, listeria and other dangerous
bacteria routinely take a huge toll on public health, yet receive
little of the attention now focused on the beef from one Washington
state Holstein found infected with mad-cow disease, also known as
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE."

►January 3, 2004 -
Leading
With The Jab To Beat Killers - This Is Staffordshire - "North
Staffordshire babies receive the most protection in Britain against
three potential killer diseases. The area has come top of a national
league table recording the proportion of each district's population
volunteering their infants to have the combined measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccine."

►January 3, 2004 - MMR
vaccine take-up rate will cost lives - The Ham & High Network -
"A Top Royal Free doctor has warned that many children will die because
of the poor take-up of rate of the MMR vaccine."

Comment: More scare mongering.

►December 29, 2003 -
Statement
By Safe Minds On The Wall Street Journal Editorial of 12/29/03, "The
Politics of Autism" - www.safeminds.org
- "The December 29th editorial from the Wall Street Journal "The
Politics of Autism: Lawsuits and emotion vs. science and childhood
vaccines" is a misrepresentation of the actual facts surrounding the
debate concerning autism and exposure to thimerosal, a mercury
preservative used in some but not all infant vaccines. Instead of this
being a "story of politics and lawyers trumping science and medicine"
as alleged, it would be more accurately described as a story of how the
pharmaceutical industry uses the media and politics to accomplish its
goals.

►January 4, 2004 -
Meningitis
group urges child vaccinations -
www.2theadvocate.com - "The
chances of dying from bacterial meningitis, which has claimed the lives
of two area teen-agers in the past month, are about one in a million in
Louisiana, health officials said...But such odds, as small as they
seem, are still too great for the National Meningitis Foundation."

Comment: If there were no
potential risks from meningitis vaccine, perhaps this would be a
no-brainer. But there are.
(There have been
644adverse meningitis
vaccine-associated reactions,representingin all likelihood between 6,440
and 64,400 cases, reported to VAERS so far.)

►September 24, 1998 - International
Conference on Harmonisation; Guidance on Viral Safety Evaluation of
Biotechnology Products Derived From Cell Lines of Human or Animal
Origin; Availability - FDA/HHS - "The risk of viral contamination
is a feature common to all biotechnology products derived from cell
lines. Such contamination could have serious clinical consequences and
can arise from the contamination of the source cell lines themselves
(cell substrates) or from adventitious introduction of virus during
production. To date, however, biotechnology products derived from cell
lines have not been implicated in the transmission of viruses.
Nevertheless, it is expected that the safety of these products with
regard to viral
contamination can be reasonably assured only by the application of a
virus testing program and assessment of virus removal and inactivation
achieved by the manufacturing process, as outlined below.

►January 4, 2004 - Mercury
labeling expected to have national impact - The Times Argus Online
- "Manufacturers have started labeling fluorescent lamps to be sold in
Vermont as containing mercury to abide by Vermont's first-in-the-nation
mercury labeling law...The move is expected to have a national impact."

Comment: But don't fret about injecting (large doses of) mercury into
the bodies of infants and children! It's a harmless neurotoxin
that is used in vaccines!

►December 29, 2003 -
Doctors:
Learn Manners or Fail - Ivanhoe - "Up until 1964, medical students
were actually tested on their bedside manner. Forty years later, that
concept is back with an updated test. Starting with the class of 2005,
all future doctors will be tested on their ability to communicate with
a patient."

►December 27, 2003 -
New weapon
against asthma - Scientists have identified a new class of drug
which could dramatically boost the weaponry against asthma - BBC

►December 31, 2003 - Scripps' arrival opens animal research debate - The Jupiter Courier - "'With more reliable and more humane alternatives
available today, (Scripps) has no business conducting gruesome and
archaic animal tests,' ARFF President Nanci Alexander said in a news
release. 'If (Scripps) is using animals in their research, we believe
the public has the right to know exactly what and why.'"

►January 1, 2004 - Multi-pronged
approach - As the problems of the learning disabled are manifold,
opting for a combination of therapies may be a better way of helping
them. Pang Hin Yue talks to two experts in Auditory Integration Therapy
and Mediated Learning Experience. - The Star Online - "There is no
single solution when it comes to helping children with autism,
attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, pervasive developmental disorder
and other learning disabilities...As more scientists agree that the way
in which the brain functions is influenced by a person's biological
make-up and environmental factors, a multi-disciplinary approach is
encouraged in seeking treatments for persons with learning
disabilities."

►December 31, 2003 - Inside
the mercurial Bush policy on mercury pollution - Nearly 2 years of
work by EPA panel dumped - "For nearly 21 months, a government
task force steadily moved toward recommending rules that within three
years would force every coal-fired power plant in the country to reduce
emissions of mercury, which can cause neurological and developmental
damage to humans...But in April, the EPA abruptly dismantled the panel.
John Paul, its co- chairman, said members were given no clue why their
work was halted -- that is, until late last month, when the Bush
administration revealed it was taking an entirely different approach,
using a more flexible portion of the Clean Air Act."

►January 1, 2004 - Lawmaker
urges vaccine planning - Bad deal sparks call
for change - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - "The vice
chairman of the state House Health and Human Services Committee said he
was disappointed by health officials' handling of the botched flu
vaccine deal, and he wants to see plans to ensure it won't happen
again."

►December 30, 2003 - Meningitis
Drops in 2003, Despite Several Recent Cases - Boston Globe via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract) - "New Hampshire health
officials have disclosed that the strain of meningitis that killed an
18-year-old woman in the Bennington area is not the same strain that
infected two 15-year-old students in Keene, allaying fears that an
outbreak of the dangerous illness is erupting. In addition, two other
youths who contracted meningitis last week appear to have no relation
to any of the other cases. In fact, the rate of meningitis infection
has dropped in 2003 despite this recent jump in the disease's
visibility."

►December 29, 2003 - N.H.
struggles with bacterial meningitis cases - Scientists are
examining a strain of bacterial meningitis and trying to make links
among five teenagers who contracted the brain-swelling disease. One of
them has died. - AP via CNN

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